This retreat will combine elements of a Centering Prayer Retreat with both instruction and practice in Guard of the Heart practices.

Come join us for a weekend of Mindfulness on the Mountain. There will be both guided and silent meditations, movement meditation, as well as sound experiences led by by Gordon Peerman and his team, Ryan Black and Kenneth Robinson.

Join us each Wednesday at noon during the month of October for a FREE online program. Each week St. Mary’s Sewanee will offer a program highlighting a different spiritual practice. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link and login information.

This retreat will include sitting and walking meditation, instruction, dharma talks and discussion periods. It is suitable for all levels of experience.

This retreat is an opportunity for practitioners of Centering Prayer to deepen their contemplative journey in the contemporary world. It is a weekend experience of integrating contemplation and action through silence, solitude, and community.

Please join us on the Bluff for a weekend of creativity, contemplation, and community. From writing our hearts out to walking the labyrinth, practicing Centering Prayer to sharing our stories, we’ll experience rest, renewal, and reconnection.

This retreat is an opportunity for practitioners of Centering Prayer to deepen their contemplative journey in the contemporary world. It is a five day experience of integrating contemplation and action through silence, solitude, and community.

Come join us for a weekend of Mindfulness on the Mountain. This will be a Silent Retreat. There will be both guided and silent meditations, with morning, afternoon and evening teaching by Gordon Peerman. Ryan Black of Nashville Tai Chi and Wellness will lead the mindful movement of Qigong, integrated throughout the retreat. Kenneth Robinson will lead us in the devotional chanting of Kirtan. Meals will be silent (except for the opening Friday dinner). Both beginners and those with experience in mindfulness practice are most welcome.

Our capacity for sensory exploration goes far beyond the classic five senses. This weekend retreat will explore a deep connection to your physical body through enhanced awareness that turns your sensing capacity inwards.

Where are the wellsprings of hope for you? For us together? Such questions haunted T.S. Eliot as Europe hurtled into the darkness of World War II. They continue to face us in our lives and in our time. Eliot’s response was writing Four Quartets, his last and finest poems, which take us on a spiritual journey through the dark chaos of experience to a vision of unconquerable hope.

This retreat is an opportunity for practitioners of Centering Prayer to deepen their contemplative journey in the contemporary world. It is a week-long experience of integrating contemplation and action through silence, solitude, and community.

This weekend retreat will focus on how Centering Prayer can heighten one’s understanding and appreciation for the season of Advent.

Silent retreat offers a time to rest in the space of the heart. Sitting meditation alternating with walking meditation form the basic structure of this retreat in the Insight Meditation tradition. These practices calm the body and mind and open the heart to the truth of the present moment, just as it is. Guidance in these practices along with evening teaching talks will be offered as we deepen our practice in the shared silence. Participants will be holding silence with opportunities for questions and reflections. This retreat is open to beginners as well as more experienced practitioners.